Ben Thompson
speaker
41,192 appearances
118 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 39 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 5.
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Yeah, I think Apple foreclosed the opportunity.
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What Gabriel's putting his finger on is they foreclosed the opportunity for people to leave this keynote excited for the exact reasons he said.
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They could show exciting things and no one would believe them, or they could show like we're actually like doing basic stuff, but it works this time.
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Yeah.
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And then everyone's underwhelmed.
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So that's Apple's own fault.
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This is the cost of 2024, is that no
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No one is gonna leave 2026 genuinely excited and feeling like Apple is changing the world.
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Given that constraint, uh I thought
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They did a great job.
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Uh and the most important thing aspect of doing a great job was the extent to which this was a fairly painful keynote.
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Yeah.
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On one hand, it was shockingly short.
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And it was shockingly short, despite the fact it felt like approximately twenty-three percent of the keynote was watching voting indicators.
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Like this was the dem this was the keynote of all keynotes that could have benefited from being live.
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Where you have cause cause what they needed to they they needed to rebuild their credibility.
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And you rebuild your credibility by stuff
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actually working.
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Now they I guess we'll just they're never here.
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They're allergic to
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